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Radiative Saturation. Higher levels of radiation create a larger population in the excited state, allowing stimulated emission to become a competing process. In this process, atoms in the excited state absorb photons, which re-emit coherently that is with the same frequency, phase and direction as the incident photon. Thus stimulated emission does not produce backscat-tered photons. As the incident energy increases, a greater proportion of the excited atoms absorb a photon and produce stimulated emission before they decay naturally. The net result is that the population of atoms available to produce backscatter decreases, i.e., the medium saturates. 

Two methods to secure very small samples of francium for examination use the decay processes of other radioactive elements. One is to bombard thorium with protons. The second is to start with radium in an accelerator, where, through a series of decay processes, the radium is converted to actinium, which in turn rapidly decays into thorium, and finally, thorium decays naturally into francium. Following is a schematic of the decay process used for the production of small amounts of Fr-223 which, in turn, after several more decay processes ends up as stable lead (Pb) ... 

Measurement of Stellar Age from Uranium Decay , Nature, 409... 

The fact that there were three basic decay processes (and their names) was discovered by Rutherford. He showed that all three processes occur in a sample of decaying natural uranium (and its daughters). The emitted radiations were designated a, (3, and y to denote the penetrating power of the different radiation types. Further research has shown that in a decay, a heavy nucleus spontaneously emits a 4He nucleus (an a particle). The emitted a particles are monoenergetic, and, as a result of the decay, the parent nucleus loses two protons and two neutrons and is transformed into a new nuclide. All nuclei with Z > 83 are unstable with respect to this decay mode. 

In a typical experiment, noninvasive spectra are collected continuously as the in vivo glucose concentration is controlled by intravenous infusion of fluids.50 Glucose concentrations are held low and constant for the first 3 h. Then, glucose concentrations are increased to more than 30 mM. Glucose is maintained at this level for approximately 1 h, after which the glucose concentration is allowed to decay naturally to basal levels over the next hour. During the course of the experiment, arterial blood samples are collected periodically for analysis by a standard reference method. 

Primary steps of photoinduced electron transfer have been studied in plant reaction centers (PS-I and PS-II), by flash absorption and EPR. In PS-I two questions wereinvestigated i) the properties of the primary radical pair P-700+, A0 (kinetics of decay nature of A0, presumably a specialized chlorophyll a decay by recombination to populate the P-700 triplet state) and ii) the nature of the secondary acceptor A,. Extraction-reconstitution experiments indicate that A, is very probably a molecule of vitamin K,. 

Primas, F.( 2001. Measurement of stellar age from uranium decay. Nature, 409, 691-2. 

There were several early lower pressure (few GPa) interferometric and optical studies using ps laser drive on thin samples (tens of Jim sandwiched between thick windows), and also using confined laser ablation as the shock drive mechanism [19-26], These researchers showed that a Michelson interferometer with the sample in one leg could be used to infer the time-dependent pressure in the shocked sample. The decaying nature of their shocks (triangular or saw-tooth shape in time) due to the short laser pulse used was problematic. 

Although muons are thought to have the same properties as electrons, as is indeed the case for negative muons, p , which behave as heavy electrons , the chemical properties of positive muons should rather be regarded as light protons . The pt tive muon can pick up an electron from a substance and form a neutral partick called muonium (p e , chemical symbol Mu). TTie atomic paran ters of Mu are very clore to those of H atom excqtt that the mass is 9 times smaller aiKi it is not stable because of the intrinsic decay nature of p. Mu can be regarded as a radioactive isotope of H atom (Table 2). 

Coal, petroleum, natural gas, and woody plants provide us with a vast resource of energy, all of which is derived from the sun. Plants use the process of photosynthesis to store the sun s energy, and we harvest that energy by burning the plants or using the decay products of the plants. These decay products have been converted over millions of years to fossil fuels. As the plants died and decayed, natural processes changed them into petroleum deposits that we now use in the forms of gasoline and natural gas. 

Adding to the problem was the growth in the amount and types of waste. Today, consumers purchase food and other items in all kinds of special packaging not used in the distant past. The variety of product materials grew. Some waste did not bum, mst, or decay naturally. At one time there were few plastics. Today, plastic waste is common. 

The commonly used fitting equation for oscillatory structural forces as introduced by Israelachvilli [16] can be extended by introducing an additional term of exponential decaying nature (B strength of the additional term, 2 - exponential decay length) ... 

It is simple, however, to improve things considerably " by noticing that, for large molecules, at a given grid point r most of the basis function will be almost zero (because of the fast-decaying nature of basis functions). Let us define 5, as the set of all those basis functions that fulfil the following condition... 

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